Literalists Quotes

#1. Addiction is a brain disease. This is not a moral failing. This is not about bad people who are choosing to continue to use drugs because they lack willpower.

Michael Botticelli

#2. Outcome of the present struggle between Russia and Japan, its significance lies in the fact that a nation of the East, equipped with Western weapons and girding itself with Western energy of will, is deliberately measuring strength against one of

Lafcadio Hearn

#3. In reality, there are no biblical literalists, only selective literalists. By abolishing slavery and ordaining women, millions of Protestants have gone far beyond biblical literalism. It's time we did the same for homophobia.

William Sloane Coffin

#4. I'm kind of a pop balladeer because I love the art of storytelling. I call myself 'HBO for the ears'; I sing little movies.

Amanda McBroom

#5. Women don't run around saying, "Oh, I took a Bodysex workshop, and I had so much fun, and Betty Dodson taught us how to blah blah." They come, they go, and I rarely hear from them again.

Betty Dodson

#6. What fear has once made me will, I am bound still to will when without fear.

Michel De Montaigne

#7. The real deceivers are the literalists, who say, I cannot tell a lie.

Norman O. Brown

#8. Short waves will be generally used in the kitchen for roasting and baking, almost instantaneously.

Lee De Forest

#9. Literalists of the imagination

Mary Ann Moore

#10. I find it harder and harder every day to live up to my blue china.

Oscar Wilde

#11. Biblical, Talmudic, or Koranic literalists remind me of children wrinkling their noses at Belon oysters and asking for more Chef Boy-E-Dee. They want the world to be as simple as they are.

Tim Kreider

#12. It is the pest of our profession that we seldom see the best side of human nature.

Walter Scott

#13. Metaphorically, IT is the nervous system of the enterprise body.

Pearl Zhu

#14. I think the first movie I ever saw was a 'Star Wars' triple bill, when 'Return of the Jedi' was released.

Richard Coyle

#15. The Book of Revelation, difficult as it may be for "literalists," becomes much simpler when we read it typologically , as a mosiac of allusions to Old Testament prophecy.

Northrop Frye

#16. When dragged into prominence by half poets, the result is not poetry, nor till the poets among us can be "literalists of the imagination"
above insolence and triviality and can present for inspection, "imaginary gardens with real toads in them," shall we have it.

Marianne Moore

#17. Prayer is about steeping in the Spirit of a God so loving that He totally changes you.

Jared Brock

#18. Too much good fortune can make you smug and unaware. Happiness should be like an oasis, the greener for the desert that surrounds it.

Rachel Field

#19. Our society is struggling because during times of change, the very last people you need on your team are well-paid bureaucrats, note takers, literalists, manual readers, TGIF laborers, map followers, and fearful employees.

Seth Godin

#20. When are you going to marry her?

"As soon as I can find a preacher willing to perform a ceremony with a handcuffed and gagged bride," Zach replied grimly.

Kori David

#21. Yeah, I have been because, generally speaking, to we Biblical literalists, the media is very hostile.

Tim LaHaye